attolent

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Adjective[edit]

attolent (comparative more attolent, superlative most attolent)

  1. that raises or lifts up (often of muscles)
    • 1867, Anna Cora Mowatt, The clergyman's wife: and other sketches. A collection of pen portraits and ...[1]:
      "Perhaps we are very presumptuous, yet we dare to cherish the conviction that there exists a more attolent influence than all"
      "   “The full-voiced rhetoric of these master minds ;”"
      "one which hourly, but silently, lifts up the hearts of men."